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Edmonton-based video game studio BioWare shutting down after more than 30 years
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Influential game development company known for Baldur's Gate and Dragon Age
Video game publisher Electronic Arts is shutting down the popular Edmonton-based game development studio BioWare after more than three decades.
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BioWare announced the closure on social media Wednesday following a report by Bloomberg that also said the company is laying off 400 people, including about 50 at BioWare.
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It also confirmed the upcoming Mass Effect game, the fifth in a series since 2007, has been cancelled.
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BioWare was founded in 1995 and acquired by Electronic Arts (EA) in 2007.
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"It's a pretty sad day," BioWare co-founder Trent Oster told CBC Radio.
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"I mean, 30 plus years ago we built something I think was pretty awesome.
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And it's pretty sad to see the end of the dream."
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The Redwood Shores, California-based maker of popular titles like Battlefield and The Sims closed the $55 billion US sale of its business to Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund PIF, investment firm Silver Lake Partners and Affinity Partners, which is run by U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner.
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Representatives for EA did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment on the layoffs.
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"What generations of BioWare built together is something to celebrate and remember," the studio said via social media.
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"These games became so much more because you played them, debated your choices, fell in love with characters, and made these worlds your own."
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BioWare built its reputation on immersive role-playing adventures, from sword-and-sorcery fantasies like Baldur's Gate and Dragon Age to science fiction epics like Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and Mass Effect.
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Oster, who is now the CEO of gaming company Beamdog, said back in its early days, BioWare was a magical place to be.
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"We went from a bunch of clueless kids trying to make a game just for the hell of it to literally being the best in the world at what we did," he said.
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"During the time I was there, it went from six people to 420, and it was just a massive growth.
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But the company's later effort to branch out into multiplayer shooters, 2019's Anthem, steered away from the studio's strength as a creator of compelling single-player narratives.
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It failed to find the sort of loyal audience that keeps online hits like Fortnite and Overwatch popular.
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Meanwhile the latest installments of BioWare's two most popular original franchises — 2017's Mass Effect: Andromeda and 2024's Dragon Age: The Veilguard — met with mixed reviews and disappointed many fans.
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A new chapter of Mass Effect was in development before BioWare announced its shutdown.
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